I'm fucked.

[Cybercat]

I'm 13, in Year 8. In two weeks I have my options and Parents Evening. I have to pick my options for GCSEs, and I have no fucking clue what to pick. Out of the three or two options I know I'm doing computer science, since I love to use computers and code stuff. And the other two, I have no idea. Parents Evening I have no problem with, since I do get good grades generally, but it's mainly the options I'm worrying about.

Also, just thinking that I'm about to start GCSE's soon is scary. I don't feel ready. Even though I'm three years away from my exams, I'm already thinking about what'll happen if I fail.

At least the end of the school year is near. I just had a one week holiday and I go back to school tomorrow, which is also when Ramadan starts. In Year 7 school started half an hour later during Ramadan, which I quite liked. This year, there is no such thing. School starts at exactly the same time. What the fuck?

I'll just have to endure a month and a half of school, and then I am free.

[Prankster813]

We pick our options in year 9, then start them in year 10, I was really late handing the form in, I chose computer science, Resistant materials (D.T), seperate sciences and business (it was either that or French).

[SoulRiser]

Pick whatever you think you'll be able to tolerate - it doesn't have much bearing on the rest of your life.

[Will]

(06-06-2016 06:47 AM)Cybercat Wrote:  I know I'm doing computer science, since I love to use computers and code stuff.

(06-07-2016 01:10 AM)SoulRiser Wrote:  Pick whatever you think you'll be able to tolerate - it doesn't have much bearing on the rest of your life.

I second this and note that your interest in computers and code stuff might not extend to enjoyment of computer science GCSEs. The stuff that you learn in your courses is likely to be insignificant compared to what you will learn by accident outside of school, so I think it's even fine if you choose not to do computer science.

(Or, more precisely, your courses will teach you a lot that you wouldn't learn on your own, like how to hate yourself and love stress, but I don't really care for those things.)

[kellie]

(06-06-2016 06:47 AM)Cybercat Wrote:  Also, just thinking that I'm about to start GCSE's soon is scary. I don't feel ready. Even though I'm three years away from my exams, I'm already thinking about what'll happen if I fail.

I'm sorry you're under so much stress. If it helps you any, I had a friend from England tell me that when he was taking his GCSEs, it was scary as fuck, and that everyone made a HUGE deal out of it at the time (especially the teachers and his parents), so he was super stressed the whole time. And now he's been out of school for years, he says he wishes someone had told him that the GCSEs actually don't really mean shit almost at all, even in terms of the conventional long-term career path that school is meant to prepare you for. He said he hates how much he had to stress and worry about it at the time.

[the Analogist]

If you are actually interested in something, dont rely upon school to deliver that knowledge to you. I feel like picking the easiest things to free up hobby/study time is best, but too often your outside of school efforts go unrecognized as they are unsanctioned/non-regulated exercises. Since school does prepare you for work at a job, perhaps learning to love stress and hate yourself is the way to go. If you actually want to ditch the official regimen as i suggest, the big question is can you be useful enough to people with money that it wont matter how you learned your skills?